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INTRODUCTION. 

For many years I have been studying- very faithfully on the 
subjects mentioned in this book, and have tried out all of them, 
I find them to give perfect satisfaction in every respect, not 
only to myself, but to each and every man 'that is using- my 
system. 

Now if you find anything that you do not understand, don't 
be afraid to ask questions, as 1 will 'be more than pleased to 
answer you and explain anything- in full detail. 

I have endeavored to use all common words in this book, 
and also have tried to make every point plain so that it can be 
easily understood. 

I would be pleased to have a personal talk with every hog 
man in the United States, but as I know that will be impos- 
sible, only in this way, don't be afraid to mention this book to 
your neighbor. If it is good for you it will be good for him. 
You always have my best regards and thanks. 
Yours respectfully, 

C. P. HATCH, Garrett, Ind. 



Copyrighted, 1914 
By C. P. Hatch. 







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Hatch's Hog Secrets, 

We will start at the foundation of your herd of hogs, the 
same as if you were g"oing- to build a mammoth l)uilding-. The 
first thing- you would do would be sure to know that your 
foundation was right, as it would be useless to erect a great 
Ijuilding- on a faulty foundation. Then why should a man ex- 
pect a large herd of hogs and a large profi't from a fault v 
foundation? 

Where would there be a greater mistake than to breed 
stock too young — stock that has not reached maturity and 
practically without a constitution? As we all know, stock is 
just the same as children, and you w^ouldn't expect your child, 
say at eight or nine years old, to go out and do as much manual 
labor as yourself. WHiy, then, expect your young s'tock to do 
their w'ork as perfectly as an older animal? You cannot ex- 
pect something for nothing. You must breed constitution U 
you expedt constitution in return. Don't you think this is one 
of the greatest mistakes that has ever been made by stock 
breeders? 

In my estimation it is one among the worst. While it isn't 
the only mistake, stop and think for a moment tha't your gilt 



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has to support her own l)0(ly and also her growth, and when 
bred too youn.g she will surely stunt her own body, her growth 
or her litter. Stop and think a moment and see which it will 
be. Why, it will be her litter every time, as it is one of the 
laws of nature for a mother to support her own body first and 
it cannot be otherwise. After the mother has supported her 
own l:)ody and growth the surplus goes to form her litter. That 
is why a young sow usually throws a weaker litter than a sow 
that has reached her maturity. 

Then, on the other hand, if a man does breed his stock in 
the way just mentioned, and keeps one of these pigs for a 
brood sow, what would he be doing? 

He wouldn't need to repeat the dose but a few times until 
there wouldn't be any resisting power left in his herd. So you 
see breeding in this way means ruin to }\:air herd. 

Now don't you think it a wiser plan to let your stock 
come to the age of maturity, and ]:)reed constitution instead of 
weakness? 

Always use a matured boar, as he is more than half of 
your herd. Use one six years old in preference to one six 
months old. You see the same precaution should l)e used in 
breeding stock as though you were going to build a barn, or 
some other large building. You wouldn't want it to fall down. 



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Why? Because it is too expensive, and for that self same 
reafon you should 1)e sure your foundation is right before you 
start, because it is too expensive to take any chances on your 
entire herd. Therefore I say nine-tenths of the hog- trouble is 
caused through the breeders them-;elves and could easily i)e 
avoided. I^hat would enhance the profits ver)^ ma'terially and 

prevent millions of dollars of loss in the United States. This 
is something that should be looked after, whether a man has 
one hog or one hundred. As a rule, the man who has a very 
few hogs is a poor man, and he feels the loss as bad as a man 
who has lots of them. 

The Treatment of the Hog. 

We will now take up the care and a few hints on the treat- 
ment of the hog. We must remember that sanitary conditions 
are one of the greatest and most essenitial features we have in 
successful hog raising, and abcive all things sliould be observed. 
Now don't understand that this rule just applies to the outside, 
because it does not. We must do as much inside the animal 
as we do outside. A man to l)e practical and successful in rais- 
ing stock must observe these rules. I have talked to hundreds 
of would-be stock men and nine-tenths of them will tell you or 
me that they use lots of disinfectant. But when you find out 
the truth they have bought one gallon where they ought to 



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have bought a barrel, and have noit used what they did buy. 

Now as to the kind, that does not matter so much, as most 
■of the dips are up to the standard in this line, and ithe one for 
a man to buy is the one that he can get the most conveniently. 
A man shoukl use his disinfectan't the most freely where his 
•stock frequents most, l^hose are the places where the disease 
germs are the most plentiful and the hardest to handle. The 
sleeping quarters should hax'e special attention in this line. All 
quarters should be kept clean and provided with plenty of fresh 
air and sunshine. 

Now let us take up a few thoughts in the way of the treat- 
iiien't of the hog. We will take up the brood sow first, as she 
is the most essential of the herd. She should have treatment of 
the proper kind continually the year around, such as will keep 
her free from worms and fever. We should watch them very 
closely and see that every organ is working 'to its full capacity 
at all times. 

1 have talked to a great many would-be stock men, and 
have had them tell me that they do not have 'the time to use 
such things. But when the crisis comes they have the time to 
bury hundreds of heads of hogs and have a very heavy hole 
torn into itheir yearly income. So now let us study for a mo- 
ment and try and figure out where a few minutes of time each 



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week will be time well spent. The time to treat them properly 
will require about two hours each week. That will total on« 
hundred and four hours in a year. Suppose you lose one hun- 
dred dollars worth of hog's throughout the year, this would 
mean a loss of nearly one dollar per hour, or at the rate of te;i 
dollars per day. which one would consider good wages. 

I wish to call your attention to the great loss in the growth 
of a hog. The average hog throughout this country should 
finish at three hundred pounds at nine months old. How many 
of our farmers succeed in having their hogs reach that weight 
at that age? The markets show that there is a greater per cent, 
of the hogs at the weight of one hundred fifty pounds at the 
above age than there are at three hundred pounds. 

Why? Please ask yourself this question and then think it 
over. You can answer it yourself. Because you did not take 
the time to give them the proper care. Isn't it your opinion 
that it would have paid we'll to have taken the time and gained 
the other additional one hundred tifty pounds that was due, Mr, 
Farmer? 

Stop and Figure. 

Notice ! Stop and. figure one second. At one hundred fifty 
pounds on each hog, ten hogs would mean one thousand five 
hundred pounds. At the price they were at the time you mar- 



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keted them, you can readily see where there was a great loss to 
you. With a little more of the proper attention you can readily 
see where you would have been the gainer, with no more 
grain fed. 

Now the one thousand five hundred pounds as shown in the 
above figures would have been your gain for your extra at- 
tention. 

When I am told by any man that he has not the time to 
give his stock the proper attention it sounds very wrong to 
tne. As a rule, the farmer looks to the sale of his stock for 
his annual income or profits, and if you neglect your stock you 
are out your money for your hard toil at the end of the year. 

For an example, say that you had a note for one thousand 
■dollars, of which the interest for one year was due. You would 
very readily find tim.e to collect the interest on the note. You 
would take all the necessary steps that would be required to 
collect the interest on the note. Then why not take the time 
and required steps to collect the profits on your hogs for the 
same period, as they furnish you a greater amount of ready cash 
than do the notes of like amount. 1 see no reason why you 
should not force collection on them. 

Study the Stock. 

How manv men studv their stock? Think it over. You can 



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pick them out. You can tell them Ijy the appearance of their 
stoci< every time. 1 have t(;ld lots of men to study their stocky 
and about nine-tentlis of them will say they d<Mi't know where 
to commence and whvre to quit. Well, the first or where to 
commence is all right. l)Ut where to (|uit — there is no such 
place. Keep on studying- as long as you are in the liog business. 
Or, in fact, the stock 'business of any kind. You are aware of 
the fact that conditions are changing all the time, and therefore 
we must experiment a little, and try and supply that which the 
system of our animals need or demand. 

You can no doubt remember when our hogs ran out in the 
woods, and did not have more than seventy-five per cent, of the 
diseases that they have now. Why? Because they had plenty 
of exercise and also had access to all the roots and herbs and 
moss of the w^oods. Therefore they could doctor themselves. I 
will go ftirther in this line. Nowadays wdien we turn our hogs 
ouit we will set in from one to four rings in each hog's nose 
and as a consequence we deprive them of what roots and herbs 
they could get. ^^'hen we cut off that recourse, why don't we 
try and supply the shortage? 

Supplying the Shortage. 

Now by supplying this shortage' we are sure to retaiiv 
health and more pounds, and you will find that both are very 



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essential and most pleasing- to the hog- raiser. When we think 
of it in the right way it means money in our pockets, or our 
ra'te of interest, if you please. 

The Cholera Germ. 

Now we will take up the cholera proposition. I have read 
.several statements from our agricultural department and they 
say that the cholera germ is so small that it cannot be detected, 
even with the strongest glass. Now if that be true, how do 
we know that it really exis'ts? 

What does it take to develop these germs? Isn't it a fact 
that filth is the only recourse we have for cholera or nearly 
so? Also isn''t it a fact that almost all disease germs are pres- 
ent in our own systems at all times? What does it take to 
•develop them? If we will but study on this matter a little we 
will find that it takes some encouragement, and this encourage- 
ment acts as fertilizer does to our crops that we plant in the 
iground. Let us try and see if we cannot get away from this 
main and fatal point. 

The Fatal Point. 

This fatal point comes in various ways. It will develop 
through sudden and gorgeous feeding, such as changing from 
one food 'to another. To illustrate, the change from the ordinary 
pasture in the fall of the year to green corn, as you know lots 



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of men turn their hogs into a piece of corn and let them help 
■themselves. Consequently they gorge their organs, and it is 
considered one of the worst things that could happen to a hog. 
Lots of men have fed disease into their hogs, even when feed- 
ing chop feed. They will put a little chop in a whole lot of 
water and force the animal to drink about five times as much 
water as they really require, and thereby gorge the organs the 
same as they would with the green corn. 

Avoid Gorging the Organs. 

Gorging the organs is one great point that should be avoid- 
ed by all means, as it is one of the most dangerous things that 
cou'ld happen in the hog business. Let us stop and study for 
a minute and see if a hog will die with any other disease except 
cholera. I don't think we would have to figure long. Take the 
figures of our agricultural department and see if they don't say 
that a great part of the disease is caused from worms. If that 
•statement be true, which is unquestioned, it can be easily 
remedied. 

So we have located the cause of part of our troubles. Now 
isn't it a fact that the gorging of the organs and worm troubles 
cause about seventy-five per cent, of our troubles? If that be 
the case we wouldn't have but about twenty-five per cent, left 
for cholera. T think you can readily see where we can shade 
the other twenty-five per cent, a whole lot by the proper care 
and attention. 



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Worms in Hogs. 

Do you think that worms will cause a hog to have cholera? 
No. but they will throw a hog into the various fevers which 
exist in the hog family. It is just as essential to avoid the fever 
as it is to avoid hog cholera, as they will die with either one. 

In my estimation it is more essential to avoid the fevers in 
preference to the cholera, as there is su much' more of it, and 
we should alwavs pull to the one that causes us the most 
trouble. Hog cholera has been pronounced incural^le, and for 
that reason we should put forth more effort against the fever. 
There is one great mistake that the hog raiser makes, and that 
is this: \\"hen o le of his hogs gets sick, the first thing he 
thinks of is chob ra, and all the talking a man can do will not 
change his mind. 

Why Hog Cholera is Incurable. 

I will, give vou an idea for the reason why hog cholera is. 
incurable. The only reason that I could ever figure out is that 
you couldn't coax them to live long enough to get a dose of 
medicine ihr; urh their svstem. If any one will notice a genuine 
case of cholera they will see that the hog doesn't last very long- 
from the time they take with it until they are dead. If a man 
can get hold of a hog before it comes down with the cholera, 
it can be pre^•ented. I, at one time, saved fourteen out of seven- 



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teen head, wliich e\ idciul}- l:acl the genuine eholera, but the 
ones I saved hadn't eome down with it yet. So by this parti- 
cular case it proves that if it is taken in time it can be stopped. 

In this specific case the man had thrown his hogs into the 
cholera 'by feeding sweet corn that he had planted late and it 
had never matured. He cut the corn after the frost came and 
it stood in the shock and moulded. He thought he would feed 
it first and he did. but it proved very expensive feeding. You 
can see that better than ninety per cent, of the hog trouble is 
the man's own fault. 

Let us see if we can cut the other ten per cent, a little. 
You have noticed your hogs passing whole grain, haven't you? 
.And lots of it. Now do you think that this is a normal condi- 
tion? And what do you call it when our food passes us prac- 
:tically'the same way as we had eaten it? Do we feel good 
when in this condition? Wouldn't we call it indigestion? Well, 
what usually follows? It is not long until we have fever. The 
same thing applies to the hog. What 'would we do for our- 
selves in the above case? We would get a radical physic 
through us about as soon as possible. Well, that would be 
about the right thing to do with your hog. The first thing that 
would be suggested would be a dose of salts. That would be 
:a good suggestion for the hog. Why? Because it flushes the 



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bowels and throws off the accumulation of poison that passes 
through the stomach and bowels so that they will not work as 
nature intended them. The salts have the same action on the 
kidneys, which is another vital point, as it should have the 
same action taken on them as the stomach and bowels. 

When Fever Sets In. 

Now when internal fever sets in, what effect does it have 
on the stomach? It closes the channels in which the digestive 
fluid flows, so as to cause a molting- process to take place and 
causes paralysis, or a paralyzing condition and stops the proper 
action, so we can expect almost anything else to set in. The 
animal is just the same as a piece of machinery. Tt must be in 
perfect time and every part must work in harmony to get 
results. 

W'hen we start any new machinery it always works well, 
but wdien we allow it to work loose at every point and do not 
keep it oiled, what is the result? It wnll wear out. Just so with 
the constitution of the hog. W'hen the constitution or the har- 
mony of our machinery wears out we throw it in the junk pile. 
When the harmony of the hog system is broken, what happens? 
It gets sick and dies. So we must look at our stock in the way 
just mentioned 'before we can raise hogs successfully and avoid 
the hos: diseases. 



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Xow as worms arc the cause of most of our hog trouble, 
we must avoid them. As wood ashes and salt have been a 
remedy for years, and it is a good one as far as it goes (but it 
doesn't go nearl}' far enough), there is one thing that must be 
avoided when using it : A'ou must never force a hog to eat it. 
Let him eat what he wants of it. The animal will get what 
salt his s}'stem recjuires. Because I say that worms cause more 
trouble than cholera, it is no sign that you s'hould feed some- 
tjiing strong enough to kill them, such as lye or sulphuric acid. 
'.Never feed them anything that you wouldn't take yourself. You 
should avoid feeding soft coal, as it is absolutely indigestible, 
and anything that is indigestible is a waste of vitality and no 
conditioner, but the craving appetite an animal has for a con- 
ditioner causes him to eat. That appetite should be satisfied by 
something else that is digestible. 

As to the sulphuric acid, as 1 have seen worm powder that 
contained it, and I have also dissected hogs that had been fed 
on this class of goods and have found acid burns in the intes- 
tines as large as a silver dollar. So you see such things should 
be avoided by all means. 

The best worm expeller in existence to my knowledge is 
the German worm seed. It expels the w^orms and heals the ab- 
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German Worm Seed is Safe. 

The worm seed is alisoluteiy safe in every way. as it does^ 
not disturb the mucous membrane of the intestines. The l)est 
antiseptic is hyposulphate of soda, as it purihes the stomach 
thoroughly and increases the flow of digestive fluids to a point 
where they will utilize as high as ninety-five per cent, of the- 
food they eat. 

Did it ever occur to you that the ordinary animals through- 
out the country do not utilize more than fifty or sixty per cent, 
of the food they eat? That would leave forty per cent, of the 
food unutilized, or thirty-five per cent, of the food wasted. 
W'hy we figure on a basis of ninety-five per cent, is because we 
have a five per cent, natural waste in our own body, the same 
as in the animal's body, that cannot be overcome by us or the 
finest of experts. This is the reason we dj not figure on over 
ninety-five per cent. 

Forty Per Cent. Waste. 

Now we will go back to the forty per cent, waste proposi- 
tion in simple figures. If you have sixty dollars' worth of hogs, 
and would put the hogs in condition to utilize ninety-five per 
cent., your gain would have been thirty-five dollars more. These 
figures show the gain on the same amount of grain fed. 

Can you afford this loss? If you will stop and figure a 
little you can overcome the greater portion of this loss by 



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giving youv hogs a little niure attention. It is time to stop this 
leakage or a waste of money. You should take time to give 
them the proi)er care that is clue them, as it will pay you a gooil 
dixidend for your time. 

Use of Charcoal. 

\\'e will now pass t(« the use of charcoal. It has gre it 
sweetening properties and al)sorI)s foreign gases that accumu- 
late in the stomach. A\hich is a vital point in the hog raising. 
Origin of Parasites. 

\\'e will now go back to the origin of the various parasites 
that exist in the hog family. l^xidentU- thc\- are caused l:»v a nit 
laid by sonic insect, and a great many times it is verv hard to 
trace back to its origin, as thde are so many di-terent kinds, 
and so many different starting points. Although some of them 
have been located, for instance, the Tenia parasite, or lung worm. 
This one is caused by the nit laid by the gallinipper, or hog 
mosquito. This nit is usually deposited on the under side of the 
grass blades and is taken mto the stomach with the grass, and 
it develops into the very small worm called the Tenia parasite. 
As this worm is very weak, consequently the w^orni will work 
up into the upper portion of the stomach where there is the 
least danger, and later up into the throat, which will cause the 
hog to cough. Every time a hog coughs he catches his breath 
and as a result throws the worms back into the luno-s. After 



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they have had a seeding they will multiply within themselves, 
and as a natural result will throw the lungs into a tuliercular 
stage. When they reach that point they are absolutely in- 
curable. 

As to the worm just mentioned, T do not know whether you 
have ever seen any of them or not. so I will give you a little 
description of them. They are usually about the size of a hair 
and about an inch in length. You will hnd them in the tubes, 
of the lungs and usually in the lower portion in the start. 

Now I have taken you through this point pretty thorough- 
ly, and may again come back to this phase of the subject before 
1 close the book. Later on in this book I will endeavor to 
give some formula to overcome a certain portion of the troubles 
just mentioned, and if you will pay particular attention to these 
lines you will find that we have 

Overcome Better Than Seventy five Per Cent. 
of the diseases that exists among our hogs. 

If you will observe the cholera proposition there isn't such 
a great per cent, of the old line cholera in existence after all. 

As I think that I have mentioned before, that the greatest 
mistake the hog raiser makes is to pronounce every case of sick- 
ness that he has in his herd, cholera. That is one weak point 
in the raiser, and a very, very bad one, too. Now when these 
points show up, why don't you fmd out as to the character oi 
the disease? 



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You can tell yourself, and in more than one way. In the 
case of cholera, you can tell by the leng-th of time thev live, as 
in those cases the life is very short from the time they come 
down with it until death; while with other diseases they will 
linger along, sometimes as long as five or six weeks. The best 
and surest way for a man who does not understand the various 
diseases is for him to stick a knife into the hog and kill it. 
About the first symptom that shows up is the gland in the neck. 
It will be enlarged and highly inflamed so it can easily be de- 
tected. The next pcjint that should be examined is the stomach 
or the ossicle gland, which will show the same way. 

There are lots of men who figure on the hemorrhagic 
stages of the system, but that isn't a certainty, as these condi- 
tions will exist in the various fevers. 

The Vaccination Treatment. 

Let Us now take up the vaccination treatment. T have been 
asked more than a thousand times as to what I thought of it. 
Well, I will tell you. the san^e as I have each and every man. 
I think it is all right if you get the genuine cholera serum. Rut 
if vou get serum ])rocessed from the blood of a hog that has 
typhoid fever it would be very wrong. In the case just men- 
tioned, suppose your hog had the cholera and you would vac- 
cinate it with a typhoid serum, what would be the result? You 
would be doubling up the dose on him anrl what could you 
expect? I have seen similar cases to this. I will carry this a 
little further so that you v/ill apprecia'te that the vaccination is 
not a cure-all any more than is the vaccination against smallpox. 



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You would take typhoid fever just the same as though you had 
never 'been vaccinated. 1 l)elievc that you will fully understand 
the points 1 am trying to make plain to you, so we will go fur- 
ther into the hog pri. position. Xow if you feel that you want 
to protect your herd both ways, that is all right, and a wise 
thing to do; but 1 would make t)ne suggestion in this case- 
place the credit where it actually belongs. If the credit belongs 
to the vaccination, place it there; but if it belongs to my sys- 
tem, place it there, and don't be afraid to say so, especially to 
your neighbors. As it will do you good, it will do your neigh- 
bor good also. It is as much to your interest to i)rotect your 
neigh'b'or's herd as it is to protect your own, or nearly so, as 
every man should take an active part in ridding his neighbor- 
hood of disease. 

Disease Germs Carried in the Air. 
As you are aware, the disease germs can be carried in the 
air and in various other ways, h'or that reason we should take 
extraordinary pains to keep our neighbors interested in the vari- 
ous preventatives. While the germs can be carried in various 
other ways, it can be prevented to some great extent by the 
use of a good dip used as a disinfectant, but not altogether. 
As you understand, the condition of the hog has a lot to do 
with the contracting of disease if the general constitution is 
run down, and he may contract the disease within himself, as 



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you will appreciate that there must be a starting point some- 
where. It is just as liable to start in your herd as anyone's. 

Consider the Litter. 

We will now call back to the litter once more. No doubt 
yovi have seen litters of pigs in which one or two of them were 
mature pigs and the rest of them would run down to practically 
nothing. Why. Because the sow has not enough vitality, or 
at least not enough surplus vitality to build the whole litter to 
maturity. You will often find that these cases exist where the 
sow^ is too fat, or out of condition. This makes a shortage of 
vitality and lack of powers to mature the litter. The same 
shortage will follow the pig to the block. AVhen a litter is 
farrowed, you should dispose of the runt, if there be one, as it 
is practically eliminated and has no power of resistance, and will 
in a great many cases get vou into trouble. You cannot afford 
to take the chances on them. My advice would be to kill them 
as this is the best place to market a runt. You will find by 
conditioning your stock, and breeding matured stock, you will 
overcome a great per cent, of the trouble just mentioned. 

Never allow your breeding stock to fatten. Keep them in 
what is termed just good growing order, or if any preference, a 
little poor. To illustrate, we will take a brood sow that weighs 
four hundred pounds when fattened, and cut the same sow back 
to two hundred, she has the same amount of blood and circula- 



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tion that she had when she weig-hed four hundred pounds. 
Now do you think that she should be expected to support the 
two hundred pounds of excessive fat and build as good a litter of 
pigs as if she did not have the extra two hundred pounds of fiesh, 
as you know that a mother always supports her own body first, 
and the surplus vitality goes to support her litter? So you see 
that you can expect more of a sow that is in a good g-rowing 
condition than you can expect of the fat sow, and that is the 
principle to carry all throug^h your hog business. This is to 
say, grow your hogs or pigs, and not try to fatten and grow 
them the same time, as it weakens the constitution to a point 
where they cannot resist .1- much as if they were in a growing 
condition. After they have their growth is the time to do your 
heavy feeding and do your fattening. You will notice that they 
will take fat faster after they have their growth, as it is a slow 
process to do both at the same time. 

Do One Thing at a Time and Do It Well. 
It is just the .^ame as dt)ing anything else. Do one thing 
at a time and do it well, and you will find it to be the most suc- 
cessful. Now as to the care. The first principle to be observed 
is to keep your pens and sleeping quarters clean, and do not al- 
low your hogs to run to a manure pile or straw stack in the 
winter, as they will accumulate more germs there than in any 
other possible place, on account of the filth. Avoid keeping 



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them in a j)lace where too many sleep together, as thev will 
pile up and heat and steam themselves, and when the cold air 
strikes them, it is lial^le to throw them into pneumonia of vari- 
ous kinds. This is the hardest thin.g- to overcome that we have 
in the hog family, and it is a poor time to commence after they 
are down sick with it. ^'ou will find that it will he easily 
avoided if you watch them and use good judgment. 

Feeding. 
Now let us ta'.-e u]) the feeding of the hogs and pigs. For 
stock hogs or growing pigs you should use a balanced ration. 
While it is difficult to carry out a complete balance all seasons 
of the year, I will suggest a l)alance of this kind : ( )ne-fourth 
(j4) whole wheat, one-fourth (^4) shelled corn and one-half 
(/^) oats. I do not mean in measure, but in pounds, as sixty 
pounds of wheat, sixty pounds shelled corn and one hundred 
twenty pounds of oats chopped together. There is no better 
muscle builder than wdieat, there is no better bone b I'lder than 
oats, and the corn i^rochue-; en'-.u'jh fat to keej) the .mimal in 
good growing condition. ^Vhe^ feeding avoid feeding iii slop. 
Usuallv a man will put a little chop feed in a whole lot of 
water, and in that way gorges the organs to a certain extent. 
As I have mentioned before, it should be avoided by all means. 
Make your feed just wet enough so that it will all be moist, so 
the animal has to eat it instead of drinking- it. In gorging the 



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organs of your hog you just stunt him that much. If you will 
remember, you never saw a poted hog attain a very great size. 
You wall also notice that pigs will gorge themselves on clover 
or alfalfa pasture. Suppose you bring them in and do as I have 
mentioned Ijefore, put a little chop in a whole lot of w^ater. In 
this way you are wasting your feed and doubling the gorge, 
and you will not get much more than half of the good healthy 
growth that is coming to you. 

Mistake Commonly Made. 

We will not discuss the mistake that hundreds of hog men 
make as to feeding corn. They get the idea that corn is the 
only hog feed that there is in existence. That is very wrong 
indeed. Corn alone is one of the poorest feeds for stock hogs 
or growing pigs that can be fed. I have mentioned this before 
on previous pages, and the reason I repeat this statement is be- 
cause I wish to impress it on your minds and have you try and 
break away from it. except in feeding out stock for market. 
Corn as a Fattener. 

Without question corn is the best fattener we have, as it 
contains more carbons and oils than any other grain we raise. 
Therefore it will produce more fat than any of our grains. 

I suppose you have seen the bulletin published by our agri- 
cultural department of the start they have made in one county 
in Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska. You wall notice that the strong- 



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est j)oint carried in all of these statements is the sanitary condi- 
tions, and in all the quarantine districts this one point is carried 
out very strong. They have an inspector in each of these dis- 
tricts to see that the sanitary rules are observed. If we keep 
our stock in the right condition physically v/e will win more 
prizes than they will, because we are preventing the trouble 
without inoculating the animal with the disease germ and taking 
a chance on doubling up the disease on them, as 1 have ex- 
plained on previous pages. You will notice that this game is 
just like a horse race. The people that are doing the vaccinat- 
ing is playing a favorite and putting us against the held. But 
as we are equal to the occasion we will stand it, even if we have 
to buck the odds. The old adage holds good in every case, that 
an ounce of preventative is worth a pound of cure. This old 
saying has been taught us since childhood, and why don't we 
observe it? 

Insure Against Diseases. 

Now let us insure our herd against disease. th"ough our 
own careful o])servance and treatment. You will rea'".ly see that 
in this case we are the insurance company, policy holder and the 
whole thing. You will also appreciate the insurance. Without 
a doubt you carry insurance on your barn. Why? To protect 
yourself, of course. You will take the best possible care of it and 
see that it is not in danger in any way, if you could possibly 
prevent it. 



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Let us see if we cannot protect our hogs in the same man- 
ner, as the hog" is usually the one that builds these barns and 
buys automobiles and builds nice little fire proof garages io 
keep them in. There is nothing that provokes me more than to 
see a man who has all of these modern conveniences and then 
allows his hogs to sleep out of doors. As a rule the hog pays for 
it all, and I think he should be protected first; then if you have 
any spare time put it on your automobile. 

Now as we have taken enough time for this subject we will 
pass on to another. Let me delay you just one moment longer 
and ask you this question : Don't you think it is easier to treat 
the cause than to treat the disease? 

We will see the time when a system treatment will be de- 
manded by the people. There will be laws governing that point, 
both in man and beast. I will make a simple illustration to show 
this point. Take the cow. Now in case of a cow giving l:»loody 
milk, where would you start treatment on her? Do you think 
it w^ould l)e the right place to start on the milk organs? Wouldn't 
it be a wiser plan to start at the stomach and come out? The 
stomach feeds the blood, and the blood feeds the milk organs. 
In this manner you would get a permanent cure, while in the 
way mentioned first you would but get a temporary relief, as it 
Vv^ould ibe only a question of time until the stomach would throw 
off enough poison to cause the same trouble you had in the first 



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place. You can readily see that the system treatment is the only 
way to treat any disease — or 

Treat the Cause. 

Now as we do not keep our stock for pleasure, we try to 
keep them for profit. But when we kee]) them out of condition 
we are surely not profiting therel)y. llie proper thing to do is to 
keep them utilizifig all the food they eat. In this way we will 
be realizing a profit on what is usually wasted. 

W'hen we get our breeding stock in proper condition we can 
hardly imagine the trouble we are avoiding. Not only in the 
regular line of sickness, but in the way of abortion and failure in 
getting them pregnant. All of these things means a great loss to 
the breeder. 

As a rule the stock man depends a great deal on the 
early pasture. A\'hy? Because it has a tendency to loosen the 
bowels of the animal. That has some etTect on the general con- 
dition of the svstem. The stomach is without a question the key 
seat to all diseases. How many men are there who do not reach 
the point of the early pasture? How many men are there who 
have their stock in proper condition that they could hardly pull 
through and make any money without the pasture, if there 
should be such a thing as a failure in that line? I don't think 
there would be very many, do you ? 



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The Wmter Pig. 

Now let us take up the winter piL^ proposition. As to ni}' 
choice I would prefer raising- winter pigs instead of early spring 
pigs. What I mean in this statement is to have the pigs come 
late in the fall, and winter them. In this way th y m'ss a gre il 
deal of the germs that cause parasites, and that is a greai ad- 
vantage. 

While we have a little disad\-antage of the cold weather, if 
the proper care and attention is given them you can raise a muc!i 
better pig. and one with a stronger constitution. I would much 
rather select my breeding stock from the class just mentioned in 
order that I might gain that one particular point. That is one of 
great advantage, and if you will try ii you will find it a most 
satisfactory idea. 

The Cow as a Milk Producer. 

We will now go back to the cow. Why don't a man put 
his cow in the proper condition in winter? If proper attention 
is given the cow she can be made to produce as much good 
rich milk in the winter as in the summer when she has green 
pasture. In fact she would give more in the winter than in 
the summer for the reason that the feed is stronger and there are 
no flies to bother her. She has many advantages over the sum- 
mer, and if you just make a little experiment in this line the fact 
will be demonstrated to you to your full satisfaction. You realize 



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moie out of your butter fat in the winter than in the summer, 
and you have more time to devote to the cows at that time of 
the year, as you do not have nearly so much work to do then. 

To realize the greatest prohi on cows is to make them do 
their heavy milking in the winter, or let the calf run with them. 
I don't mean exactly to let the calf run in the pasture with the 
COW', but let the calf stay in a small lot of about an acre of 
ground, and have a good dark shed for the calf so it can get away 
from the flies, and turn your cows in with the calf in the morn- 
ing and let the calf suck, and then turn her out. In the even- 
ing do the same thing, and in this way it will not cut any figure 
with your cow breeding. I will go just a little further with 
the care of the calf. As soon as the calf is large enough to 
want to eat a little gi\e him some ground oats in a trough fixed 
in the shed just mentioned. You can mix in the ground oats 
a little oil meal, as this has a tendency to help the cow out in 
her duties in raising the calf, and will leave more milk for yon 
to take from the cow. 

Another important thing to see to is that all the milk is taken 
from the cow each time the calf is allowed to suck.: If the calf 
don't take it all you should see that she is milked out. These 
points will make you money if properly observed. 



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Calves Sell for Eighty Dollars Each. 

In 1913 I saw two calves that had run vvitli the cow, sell for 
eighty dollars each. The calves were thirteen months old at the 
time of marketing-. The cows were culled out of a dairy. They 
were considered unprotital^le to use in that line any longer. As 
to their being pregnant they had to be kept over, and in this 
way were made pr(ifital:)ie instead of the milking. 

After these calves were weaned the cows fed a short time 
and were then sold for as much as was paid for them. The profit 
on the calves were absolutely clear gain. 

What I am getting at is this. I want to get the farmer awa\ 
from the old idea, or out of the old rut, in which he is liable to 
stick or lose money continually. You can see it is much better 
to raise stock in this way than to raise stock on milk that has 
been run through a cream separator, or i:»n wind and sunshine. 

You very well know that you cannot get something from 
nothing. This would be absolutely impossible. There is another 
essential feature that must be observed with the l:)reeding stock. 
That is to see that they have plenty of exercise. 
Proper Exercise Needed. 

This is off from the regular subject, but a few hints on this 
line you will find very beneficial. Back to bur regular subject, I 
will furnish plans and specifications for a sanitary hog house on 
ij-equest. I think it will more than meet your approval in every 



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respect. It is the most all-around plan 1 have ever seen. If it 
impresses you as it has me you would use no other plan, be- 
cause I believe it would pay for itself in a very short time. It is 
sanitary and convenient. Each and every animal gets the 
proper exercise. 

Raising Wrong Kind of Hogs. 

I have made the statement a number of times to heavy corn 
feeders that they are raising- the wrong kind of hogs for the way 
they are tryingf t(~» raise them. They fatten their young stock in- 
stead of trying' to g-row them. As I said before when you fatten 
a young- hog you do not get the size t(T them. So in this case 
the feeder should raise the Tamworth Hampshire, or the old line 
Chester AMiites, as they will grow until they get their growth 
before they will fatten. They are what is termed the l)acon hog. 
In this way they are sure to gr(iw resisting power and can ward 
off disease, while if they would fatten it would weaken the con- 
stitution to a point where they would contract disease. 
Building the Hog. 

Now let us think a moment on the illustration of the build- 
ing. \\'e would not try to put up the studding and the siding at 
the same time. You would always build the frame first, and 
put on the siding afterwards. Why not figure on the same plan 
for the hogs? Build their frame first and then put on the siding 
and finish up the job. 



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1 ha\'c talked to a great many farmers concerning the differ- 
ent 'breeds of hogs, and they differ very materially in this line 
Some want hogs that they can feed out at about three to four 
months, while some want to market at about nine months old. 
No doubt you have noticed when you get a hog up to three hun- 
dred pounds, that the last hundred, or the third one goes on a 
great deal quicker and cheaper than the first hundred. " The 
cheapest and quickest hundred is the one we want the worst, as 
that means more net profit to the feeder. 

The three hundred mark can be reached very easily at nine 
months old if proper care has been given the stock. To illus- 
trate this fact, and to your own satisfaction, make a little ex- 
periment of your own, and I believe that you will agree with me 
in every point that I have endeavored to make plain to you. 
■ The Large Boned Poland China Hog. 

As to breed, I am a little partial to the large boned Poland 
China hog, but a man must keep the fat off of them, or you 
will have the same trouble with them as with any other strain 
that is easily fattened. Because this is my choice, that does not 
signify that every man shall raise the same breed. At this day 
and age of the world we have all good breeds if they are raised 
as they are intended to be raised. A man makes a success in 
raising any breed that we have. But above all things he should 
avoid the fat on his breeding stock. If a man can not keep the fat 



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off of the Poland Duroc or Berkshire he should raise the Tam- 
worth or the old line Chester White, as they will not fatten at 
that period, and I do not think that you will have any trouble in 
keeping the fat off df them. They will stay in what we term 
growing condition, and it will not be any trouble to keep them 
in that condition. 

The Size of the Litter. 

\\'e will n(Tw fall back to the size of the litter. The ordinary 
brood sow will, if she has any chance, throw seven or eight pigs, 
and that is enough for nn? litter. 1 w>iu^d rather have the num- 
ber of pigs just mentioned than to liave d uble the amount, as the 
smaller litter will usually be extra good ones. I would rather 
have seven good pigs thai twice the numl)er of culls. 

There is one more point I would wish to call your attention 
to. That is to the l^reeding. Thoroughbred stock, as 1 think 
there isn't anything that looks better or nicer than a herd of 
thoroughbred stock, no matter what kind. They are all a uni- 
form color, and if T had my way I would classify the sizes. 
In this manner it has mure tha-i one barring. To illustrate, if a 
man wants to sell his farm, the stock he raises ha^ a great deal 
to do with it. The nearer a man has his stock classified the bet- 
ter the impression. T think that vou get the point that I am try- 
ing to make here. We all like to see a good system, even if it is 
on the farm, as there is nothing nicer than a well systematized 
place. 



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Avoid the Weak Points. 

Let us avoid every weak point possible. We will have enough 
weak 'ones at the best. If we avoid the greater amount of them 
we will find that the sickness in our herds will 'be reduced to a 
point that will surprise you, and we will not have to doctor 
nearly so much. Every little bit helps. 

There is one great point that I would like to impress upon 
the herdsman. That is to study the condition that exists in 
his herd, and keep on studying as long as he is in the business. 
Study the habits of the animal, the condition of the bowels, and 
above all see that every hog eats well every time he is fed. 

We have too many people who feeds and never looks. A 
good hog man should be a close observer and know every hog 
in his herd and know that it is doing all right. If he does not 
do that the first thing he knows they will slip something over 
on him that will be hard to get rid of. It pays to be a close 
observer in all stages of hog life. I have talked to men who 
didn't know how many hogs they had. Perhaps you know of 
some of these men in your neighborhood. As a rule this kind of 
a man does not make a very good hog man. as he would not know 
whether one half of them were layed out, half of them were sick 
or not. That is what a man should know and be sure of. 

For example there is a vast difference between a business 
man and a farmer. What we call the farmer is the man who 



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just plows his fields and sows the seed and sells his grain. The 
business man figures to have enough stock to utilize all of his grain. 
If there is a profit in shipping grain to the larger markets and 
then they distribute it back to the stock feeder, and still the 
feeder makes a profit on it, it would seem that there would 
be a great profit to the man that produced it. Without a doubt the 
man who feeds the grain that has been handled through so many 
hands makes a profit in feeding it or he wouldn't use it. You can 
then understand that you would clear up all of the middleman's 
profits and be net to you. You can see that there is more money 
in buying grain than there is in selling it. Thus you can see the 
difference between the business man and the farmer. Now let us 
try and be a business man from this date on. See if we cannot in- 
crease our profits very materially the first year. If we can do so 
the first year we can surely improve on it the second and so on 
until we get real proficient in this line of economy. 

Think of the grocer if he would give a pound and a quarter 
of sugar for a pound. It would overcome his profits and he 
would be forced out of business. In this case he would be a 
farmer. Rut. if on the other hand, he would watch these leaks 
he would be called a business man. 

Now as we have hundreds of stock men who are farmers, 
I think you will appreciate this illustration and profit by it. At 
least I hope so. The man who feeds at a loss had better be a 



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farmer and sell all of his grain as he woiildnt loose his time feed- 
ing, and perhaps lose on the grain 'besides. 

The Stock Business is a Trade, 
and not a natural vocation. If a man does not study his busi- 
ness and keep up-to-date he had better go out of business and 
go to work by the day vvag-e as he would make more money for 
himself that he would to try and do something of which he 
knew nothing about. He had better get busy and study the line 
that he wishes to take up before he goes into it, and in this 
manner he would save a lot of bought up experience. Such ex- 
perience usually conies high. 

It has been a mystery to me for years why the stock man 
didn't get out of the nkl rut in which he has stuck for years. 
I fear that some men feel a little sore at me for putting this so 
plain, l)ut 1 can't help it, as I am writing you just as I feel in 
this matter. 

fJut as you understand these little sore spots soon heal 
over, they will tip their hats to me the same as hundreds of others 
have done. 

I have talked to many men on this particular line who have 
g-otten on their ear to me, so to speak, and wanted to hght, but 
if they knew how little that bothered me they would keep it to 
themselves. The average stock man just waits for some smooth- 
tongued man to come along and sell him something in the way of 



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a conditioner that amounts to nothing- to him. As a rule he will 
not buy anything that will do him any good, as he thinks it costs 
too much. 

As I have told you before, you cannot get something for 
nothing', we will pass for a few brief moments to some facts on 
the so-called conditioners that are offered to the stock man the 
year around, and year after year^ and still they grab them be- 
cause they are cheap. Some of them give the formula on the 
package, and of course they give it in the medical names and the 
stock man never takes the time to find out what they mean. 
As a rule they are very common things, and as a rule the 
farmer has plenty of them on the farm. 

I will give you a few ideas along this line. There are some 
who use quite a per cent of crude fibre ; that , could be saw dust 
I don't say that it is, but it could be. Crude fat is another one. 
What is crude fat for an animal? Wouldn't it be anything that 
would fatten it? Corn would be crude fat for an animal. 

Now we will take nitrogen free extract. That could be 
wood ashes. Just take a look at the label on the bucket you 
have in your barn and see if you cannot find some of these few 
of the many that you get hung up on every year. 

^\'hat do you really suppose the first cost on such goods 
really are? When we take the first thought we know that they 
do not cost much or the manufacturers wouldn't get immensely 
rich in such a few vears. 



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Now what can a man expect from such goods? You can 
readily see that these leakages should be stopped, and they will 
never be unless we take an interest in it and try and find out 
what we are using, and then we will know how to use it, and 
further we would know what to pay for it. 
Thousands of Hogs Dying. 

Throughout the United States there are thousands and thou- 
sands of hogs dying absolutely unnecessarily, and could be easily 
avoided by giving them a little of the proper care. They will 
readily res])ond to anything that we do in this line. They will 
pay the margin that will be necessary to cover our extra time 
that we Dut in with them. If we do not put in any time or ex- 
pense we cannot expect anything in return. If we expect a good 
profit we must do as I have just mentioned. 

Now as I have given lots of care and study to these subjects 
I find that practical experience is the greatest teacher in these 
lines. I would like to see ever)^ man take a hand in this work 
and try a little experiment of his own in his own herd. Then 
see if there isn't some great improvement made that will in- 
crease his profits in the way of the stock business. A very 
good way to do is to travel around in your immediate vicinity 
and examine the different herds and the conditions that really 
exist. If you would let every one know what you are doing 
some people would get mad about it. They would tell you they 



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didn't thank yoii for prowling- around their barns and hog lots. 
Yon do not need to tell them what you are after. You can make 
some reasonable excuse and get by with it. I surely think that 
this would be a good educator, and a man can readily see his 
own weak spots. 

Organizt^ Your Neighborhood. 

Another good way is to form a little organization in your 
neighborhood. Meet once a month and get together and talk the 
hog matter over. You will be surprised as to the interest that 
will be taken and you will appreciate that every man has some 
g"Ood thoughts, even the weakest man. In this manner, if you 
are a good observer, you can easily extract the good points and 
then condense them. Use them to a profit. The longer your or- 
ganization runs the more proficient your argument gets. Above 
all things make every man get up and talk in your meetings. It 
will be strengthening to him and to all concerned. 

A man doe^ not necessarily have to get up and m ike a long 
flowery -:peecii in order tn be effective. A few \vi r 1 ;, thougli 
they may be in a crude state, may be very valuable to you, and 
give you an idea so that you can put it in with your ideas and 
make something good out of it. 

I will now say a word or two more about organization. 
If one should ever be perfected in your vicinity I surely woul3 
be glad to meet with you in one of your meetings, as it always 



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affords me great pleasure to see the boys get their shoulders to- 
gether and to the wheel and fight against the disease that is the 
ruination of the hog industry today. I also enjoy taking an ac- 
tive part in the fight. You have often heard this remark made 
by men that they have never fed hogs in all their experience that 
have done as well as they have this year. Now how many times 
is this result a mistake or luck, or in other words season condi- 
tions that produce this result in the place of the man's good care 
and careful treatment? 

The thing that we are fighting for is to produce these happy 
results each and every year regardless of the season's conditions. 
This case just mentioned might have come about by some par- 
ticular season when the insects have been destroyed through 
some season conditions, that are the ones that deposit the nits 
on the grass blades that are eaten by the hogs. That causes the 
parasites or worms that are causing a great portion of the dis- 
eases among the hogs today. You can readily see that there are 
lots of ways that the man just mentioned could credit his result. 
There are thousands of people who have gotten the idea into 
their heads that the animal has to have the worms in their system. 
That is entirely wrong. If you think it is necessary just try it by 
ridding the hogs of them. You will get a result that will sur- 
prise you. 



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Try the Experiment. 

A good way to put on this test is to divide a single litter and' 
treat one half pro])erly and let the other half go in the old way 
and give thf.m the same grain rations. 1 have suggested this 
test many times and have never failed to get a good report. It iS- 
about the only way you can satisfy some people, as they are from 
Missouri — you have to show them. If they try it themselves, 
they are better satisfied. 

If such tests are in <^rder with the hog, wouldn't it 'be true: 
with the rest of your stock? It is a poor rule that does not 
work both ways. 

There are many people, who think I make false statements 
when I pass the remark that I feel just as much interest in your 
stock as you do yourself. In one way I don't. That is in the 
financial way. lUit in the phy-ical way I do, and in a great 
many cases more than the owner himself. There is one great 
object in this for me, and that is, I want to see a better and 
more profitable condition in the liog business. That is the 
whole object. If there were an^• other object I surely would 
have been soliciting them, and I don't think that vou will find 
anythmg in these pages that will hint that way. I have asked 
the cn.ie'=;tion to lots of people, 

'^/Vhy Don't You Raise Better Stock? 
and invariably the ansv.'er is, they would like to raise thorough- 



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bred stock hut they can't aft", rcl it. In a kin:^ this question, 1 
don't particuk^rl}' mean that a man should raise thorough])reds, 
but I mean t(j have the raiser improve on the C(-)ndition he 
already has. Disease has no respect to breed, and for tliat 
reason we should pr(itect our mixtures the sam2 as '.I t'r.zy were 
thoroiio-hljreds. ( /'ne of the most essential things to do is to 
keep them in the })ink of condition, and gain more pounds of 
pork on less grain invested ; also larger and stronger litters. 

There is one more point I wish to take up with you before 
we get by, and that is of the tirst eight weeks of the pig's life; 
his whole life depends on that. If a pig is thrifty in every way 
and grows rapidly for that period it is hard to stunt him. On 
the other hand if it starts off stunted that ^ne thing will follow 
him to the block, and you wdll have to fight him all the way 
through his life. Usually you will lose money on him. That is 
another good point in having the mother right. And be sure 
that she is right, because she is the foundation of the litter. 

So you can see that everything points to the parent hogs, 
as they are the original foundation to your herds, and your suc- 
cess depends on that one point. 

It is an easy thing to keep a hog clean and free from 
g^ernis if you start in time, but if you put it off too long you 
will have a hard fight. Here in the above cases is a good place 
to bring in one of the old adages, that a stitch in time saves 



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nine. This is another good principle to follow in hog raising. 

If a man will but follow a few of the old sayings and pay 
the proper attention to them he will avoid a greater per cent of 
all diseases among his animals, and he will find that it is the 
best insurance that he can possibly carry on his herd. Now let 
us take up 

The Average Herd, 
throughout the country, especially those that have been neg- 
lected for a long time. \\'hat has to be done in this case? We 
will have to get something that will take a radical action on the 
system of the animal in order to realize anywhere near what is 
coming to us, even in the run dowm condition in which we find 
them. The main object in taking a radical action on the system 
is this — to loosen up the organs and get them to working as 
nature has intended them to work. Until you accomplish this 
point you cannot get the animal to utilize enough of the food 
to make it profitable to you. The animal may eat enough, but 
the more it eats the more it wastes. I have never seen the man 
who had any good grain to throw away, but there is lots of it 
thrown away in this manner. It is a great advantage to the 
raiser to keep the organs of the animal working to its full 
capacity, as when one organ is out of line it not long until 



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the whole system is out. Then you can look for trouble at 
any moment. The system is just like any other machine;. 
When one single part is out of time it is not long until the 
:rest goes to the bad. 

In Conclusion. 

I have endeavored to take you through the hog business 
-pretty thoroughly, and give you some points to study on, and 
I sincerely hope that you can see your way clear to adopt my 
system. I really believe you can. I am positive that if you 
try it out you will be ready and willing to shake my hand at the 
first opportunity we have of meeting. And I will grieve you 
just a little further. If I am ever in your neighborhood I would 
be pleased to call at yc^ur farm and talk this matter over with 
you. — that is to say, the hog proposition. 

Now as to the sanitary hog house that was mentioned in 
previous pages I will furnish you blue prints and specifications 
for fifty cents. And further I will answer any inquiry on re- 
ceipt of ten cents in stamps. I will further assist you in any way 
possible in the line of hogs and their troubles. 

Also as I have said before, if you succeed in getting, an 
organization in your vicinity and it would be possible for me 
to attend one of your meetings, I surely will do so. as I would 
like to meet every hog raiser in the United States and have a per- 



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sonal talk with him, as I think it would do us both good and 
stimulate the business. 

I would also appreciate having a few lines from you at any 
time, as I always like to hear from those who are interested in 
the hog industry. Drop me a card wdien you have completed 
reading this book. xA.ddress C. P. Hatch, Garrett, Indiana. 



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